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profit you lost even your capital !
46. For translation vide SPS. No. (743.186) supra.
*47. How can this slender young woman who is growing thinner on account of her anxiety possibly reside in your heart in your chest which is broad like Mt Meru and deep like the ocean?
*48. My dear girl, you appear excited with thoughts of secret love-making. What wonder is there, if you steal the heart of your lover? (Not only that) you would also dispel darkness by the mass of bright light of your (moon-) face.
*49. The poison of intoxication caused by some cause or causes (other than knowledge) is removed by knowledge; but if it is caused by knowledge (itself), please say what will remove it?
*50. Self-respect proceeds from merit and merit from service of the good and this opportunity to serve the good is the fruit of credits accumulated in previous lives.
*51. For translation vide SPS. No. (1323.285) supra.
*52. The heavy breathing of some lady on account of the exertion caused by climbing the steps did not stop on the top of the staircase but actually increased by the darśana of Hari.
53. For translation vide KP S. No. (60.434) supra.
*54. Let us bow only to Sleep. What is the use of other goddesses? By her favour alone you can meet your beloved although he is at a far-off place.
55. For translation vide KPS. No. (62.434) supra.
56. For translation vide KP S. No. (57.433) supra.
